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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1979
Isoo Shimizu, Yokohama, JP;
Okitsugu Tsuji, Yokohama, JP;
Eiichi Matsuzaka, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Petrochemicals Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for preparing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with excellent yield and selectivity but without the formation of cyclic dimers and other undesirable by-products. In the method of the present invention, styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, .beta.-methylstyrene and/or vinyltoluene is dimerized and/or codimerized to produce unsaturated dimer and/or codimer in the first step reaction and said unsaturated dimer and/or codimer is caused to react with an aromatic hydrocarbon or hydrocarbons in the second step reaction, and both the first and second step reactions are carried out in the presence of a catalyst which is represented by the general formula: RCF.sub.2 SO.sub.3 H, in which the symbol R is Cl, F or C.sub.n F.sub.p CL.sub.2n+1-p, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3 and p is also an integer from 1 to 2n+1.